Tile-board.



G. P. CHAPPELL.

TILE BOARD.

Patented May 107 i910.

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. GEORGE P. CHAPPELL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

TILE-BOARD.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented May titl), TSP/MD..

Application tiled 'March 13, 1909. Serial No. 483,272.

To all iwhom it may concern:

Be it known that T, GEORGE CHAPPELL, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tile- Boards, ofwhich the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such aswill enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make anduse the same.

This invention relates to an improvement in tiling adapted for use infloors, walls, or the like.

@ne of the objects of the invention is to provide a tile boardcomprising a base one surface of which is completely covered by tilingwhch is permanently secured thereto, in order that a flooring or wallcovering may be built up by using a number of said tile boards, therebyavoiding the necessity of inserting separate lling in pieces after thetile boards are placed 1n position.

Other objects will be in part obvious and in part pointed outhereinafter.

The invention accordingly consists in the features of construction,combinations of elements and arrangement of parts which will be exemliiied in the construction hereinafter set torth, and the scope of theapplication of which will be indicated in the following claim.

The accompanying drawing .illustrates a view in perspective of a portionof fiooring built up of tile boards comprising one of the variouspossible embodiments of this inven tion. t

Referring to the drawing each of the tile boards or units 1 comprises abase 2 of Wood or any other suitable fibrous material which may be ofany desired dimension and which is provided with a tongue 3 upon oneedge thereof and a corresponding groove t upon the opposite edge adaptedto receive the tongue of another unit, whereby adjacent tile boards maybe interlocked with oneanother as clearly shown in the gure. The uppersurface of the base 2 is completely covered by tiling 5 formed of acementitious material of such a character that it will rmly adherethereto. While any suitable material may be empleyed, I prefer to use an0X chlorid cement such as 'that described 1n Letters Patent No. 703,640,issued to me on July l, 1902. This material, which may be applied to thesurface of the base in any suitable manner, is preferably scored, whilein a plastic condition, by intersecting lines 6 and 7, thereby forming aplurality of individual tile elements 8. Tf desired certain of theseelements may be removed and their places filled with tile elements 9 ofcementitious material having a different characteristie, thereby formingany suitable design, as indicated in the gure.

The lmethod of laying a door or wall composed of a -plurality of theseindividual tile beards or units is similar to that employed in layino'an ordinary hard wood Hooring, nails l0 tbeing driven through the base 2in an angular direction into the sub-structure ll upon which it is to besupported, said tile boards being so placed that the groove formed uponeach of the same will interlock with the tongue of the tile boardadjacent thereto, whereby a close joint is formed.

It will be seen from the above that a Hoor or wall may be built up ofthese tile boards with great rapidity by unskilled labor. A By soconstructing the tile board that the entire surfacel of the base'thereof is completely coveredby the tiling, it will at once be seenthat the insertion of separate lling in pieces after the boards arepositioned is unnecessary, thereby saving time and labor in the layingof floors, walls, or the like.

As many changes could be made Ain the above construction and manyapparently widely different embodiments of this invention could be madewithout departing from the'scope thereof, it is intended that all mattercontained in the abovel'description or shown in the accompanyingy/drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limitingsense. It is also to be understood that the language used inv thefollowing claim is intended to cover all of the generic and specific'features of the invention herein described and all statements of thescope of the invention which, as a matter of language might be said tofall therebetween.

Having described my invention what I which Yit is secured, the oppositeedges of 1o Claim as new and desire to secure by Letters said base beingprovided With a tongue and Patent is: groove respectively.

As an article of manufacture, a tile board In testimony whereof aix inysignature, consisting of a base of fibrous material proin the presenceof two Witnesses. vided with a layer of cementitious material GEO. P.CHAPPELL. .secured to one surface thereof and' com- Witnesses:

pletely covering the same, said layer of ma- ROYAL'W. FRANCE,

terial being coextensive With the surface to PAUL A. WOLEF.

